Has' baroque and intricate costume drama is a sweeping and fascinating cautionary tale about the dualist contradictions and tensions at work within the human heart. Memoirs of a Sinner chronicles the strange adventures of an illegitimate son, now in adulthood yet still struggling to come to terms with his troubled birthright. Accompanying him on his peregrinations is an enigmatic stranger and possible double who tempts the young man to commit murderous acts to literally destroy his family and seize new autonomy from the bloodlines that exert such a chokehold upon him. Has' little seen late work is a thoughtful adaption on Scottish Romantic author James Hogg's remarkable 1824 novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner a psychological thriller—told largely from the point of view of a psychopath—that is considered to be a first example and cornerstone of the modern crime novel.